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I Love My India
There was singing, dancing and melodrama. With so many film stars
on stage, there would be. But that wasn't all at Aye Watan Tere Liye, the
Bollywood-for-Kargil show held in Delhi last week. Jaya Bachchan used the occasion to
promote son Abhishek. "This is his first public appearance," she proudly told
the packed Indira Gandhi Stadium. Shah Rukh Khan and Raveena Tandon, according to the
buzz, didn't land up despite agreeing to perform. A certain action hero, or so the
grapevine said, demanded money to be there and was politely told off. "These people
will go for a Kargil benefit football match, though it has nothing to do with their
job," grumbles cine star-turned-politico Shatrughan Sinha, "but when it comes to
something put up by their own industry, then egos and greed take over." But forget
all this for a moment. The purpose of the show, apart from collecting funds, was to fire
up the audience. Purpose served.
--Anna
M M Vetticad |
